Orpheus Hall
Vernal, Utah
C. W. Showalter, and Andrew King opened the Orpheus Hall on Thanksgiving Day, 30 November 1911. The amusement hall had a spring dance floor, but was also used for roller skating, basketball, banquets, and movies. It was named after the Greek god of Mirth, “a famous musician who is reputed to have had power to entrance men, beasts, and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.” At 11:00 PM on New Years Eve, 1928, the hall was renamed Imperial Hall. In a ceremony on 20 April 1965, Governor Governor Calvin L. Rampton took a sledge hammer and delivered the first blow in the demolition of the hall as part of a community beautification campaign.
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[Laughing Gypsy Opens]
Ogden Standard Examiner, 9 November 1975, page D9
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Nancy Larson and Allan Lykins rehearse scene from play to be presented in The Laughing Gypsy, a dinner theater which has opened on the third floor of the Washington Fair Mall at 2546 Washington. Owned by Robert Macek, The Laughing Gypsy will open Tuesdays through Thursdays from 6 to 10 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays from 6 p.m. to midnight. It will have 11 employees and features live entertainment and plays.
